The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We nave laid before our readers an ample report of the proceedings at the Crown and Anchor Tavern yesterday, on the Canada question. The result was anticipated by us. It will be seen that all the resolutions submitted to the meeting condemnatory of the course pursued by Mini sters, were carried by a large majority. It is not our in tention to enter now at any length on the considera tion of the various speeches. An endeavour was made by Mr. Roebuck to show that the course pursued by the Morning Chronicle, with respect to this question, had been dictated by interested motives. We reply to this accusa tion by denying the statement. No proprietor of this jour nal has the slightest pecuniary interest of any description in the province of Lower Canada. Mr. Easthope has been from its formation, in 1824, a Director and a very moderate proprietor of the Upper Canada Land Com pany. Mr. M‘Gillieray was also originally a Direc tor, but has ceased to be so for many years. He still, however, retains stock in the Upper Canada Land Company of the value of about 5001. The lands belong ing to that Company are all in Upper Canada. Neither Mr. Easthope nor Mr. WGillivray have a foot of land in Lower Canada. Mr. M 4 Giiiivray having been long for merly connected with the North West Company, was, as he stated in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons in 1828, well acquainted with both Lower and Upper Canada ; with Lower Canada be stated he had been acquainted since 1802 : with Upper Canada since the war, 1. e. since 1815. In what manner either Mr. Easthope or Mr. M'Gillivray can have an interest from their shares iu the Upper Canada Company to determine them to adopt the views advocated by the Morning Chro nicle, it would be difficult to point out. Mr. M‘Gillivray stated in his evidence " that where the land is merely di vided b y an imeeinary line separating the province of Lower Canada from the States of New York and Ver mont, the land in the townships on the Canadian side of the line is in many places scarcely saleable at is. per acre ; and on the other side of the line it le sold at 10e., 125., and 1.55." The iudependence of Lower Canada would, almost as a matter of course, force Upper Canada into a connection with the United States ; in eillich case the value of all property, according to the most intelliTsent witnesses, would also be greatly increased. If, then, mere persenel interest were to sway Mr. Easthope and Mr. M.Gillivrey, as proprietors of the Upper Canada Company, it would not he difficult to show that the sue (.C3S of. the French Canadians would be advantageous to them. Ae Mr. Roebuck has not scrupled to assign inte rested motives to these gentlemen, we have thus shown that, taking that sordid test, no interest can possibly exist. Witli regard to Mr. Edward Ellice., we have had no com munication with that gentleman on the question since the news of the revolt reached this country. We can have re right to dispute with Mr. Roebuck on his acconut. He 55;11, co doubt, defead, and explain his own views in Par liament ; and as to Mr. Roebuck's statement of Mr. M'Giilivrav being connected in some mysterious manner with Mr. Ellice, it is wholly and entirely unfounded. The proprietors of this journal have not the sliehtest pecu niery ioterest of any sort or kind, directly or indirectly,' with the province of Lower Canada or with Mr. Es. lice. If Mr. Roebuck knows or believes the con trary, we challenge him to state it. If he referred to the interests which we have stated in the stock of the Upper Canada Land Company, why was he not explicit ? If Its intends nnything further, we charge hint with mis-state ;new If he intended only this, the peblie will feel it to be one of the most hemmers myseificaeinns ever employed to aid a had rause. W 0 still not ask Mr Roebuck what v a eres t be h a s whi c h le ItiS him to defend the rebels of .inower Camade ; nor will we resort to any such imputation as he has thrown out against us with a view to destroy the effect of his profcssioed lahours. The course we have adopted has been dictated by a strong sense of duty. %V ere not the advocates of a republican form of government for British possessions, but will Alike do rear best to expoee the error? and mistakes of our past colonial policy, and to resist the effort.; of republicans and mischievous nieitators, ...bother it home or abroad. Again we ask the advocates! of the Canadian rebels, what. is to be-your policy, and v-list are your wishes in relation to the British colonists who sirs attached to the mother country ? Will you etaielan them to a furious civil strife, to become the victims or a perty in rebellion against their Sovereign ? Shall their suffetings he handed down to posterity forming . tele of horror anil blivelshed, a con eepienee of cite red. eller! of England, in return for devotion and loyaliy.— el/seeing Chronicle. Our readers will find elsewhere an ample report of a eneeling he'd yesterday, et the Crown and Anchor, upon the efrairs of . 'anedit. The Report is taken mainly from The Son, and if its report be correct it would appear that the tentiments expressed in this journal yesterday did not :meet with the approbation of the- meeting. We expected nothing less from the friends of Mr. Roebuck, and we care as little for their censure as we do for the ink and paper winch we are now using. We shall pursue our own course, as they unquestionably will pursue theirs ; but no recri mination—no obloquy shall tempt us to swerve from ours. The rejected of Bath may rail and declaim as long as he : pleases ; but his vituperations cost us as much thought as ;the water which is carried through Fleet-ditch to the Thames. We had much rather be abused than be praised hr a person so utterly incapable of managing himself as Mr. It, chuck. His anti-British sentiments find no echo in our hoso.no nor in that of any man attached to his country—its interests, and its honour. We are sorry to see such men As Mr. liume, Mr. Grote. and others gracing the rebel ihous tactics of Mr. Roebuck. For them we entertain the highest respect. They have well and justly earned the highest rewards that their country could award them ; hut are they not foolish to ally themselves with a person so devoid of all statesmanlike qualities, as the fretful boy whom the people of Bath deemed to be unfit to represent ahem ?---elforning Advertiser. The meeting which took place yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern was not quite so harmonious as its contrivers perhaps expected, and certainly would wish. The feet is that the rebellion in Canada has caused some thing like a split in the camp of the Westminster Refor mers. Some of them are for cheering on the Canadians and opposing the Government ; others for cheering on the Government, and leaving the Canadians to their fate. For instance, General Evans declines to attend the Radical meeting of the Crown and Anchor, and writes an expostu latory letter. Mr. Leader attends the meeting, assists in getting up the meeting, and receives an expostulatory or rather a denouncing letter, from the Chairman of his Com mittee, and thus the two representatives take opposite courses, and may be said to represent the confusion which at present distracts the extreme party to which they belong. But, with all due deference to the " pa triots " who figured at the meeting of yesterday, there is a wide distinction between censuring the policy of Ministers with respect to Canada in a proper tone and at a fitting moment, and assembling for the avowed purpose of expressing sympathy (and sympathy is encouragement) with men who are at war with the Government, and as sembling- for the purpose at the very moment when those amen have arms in their hands. A more ill-timed display of political bias has been seldom exhibited even by the Radical worthies who came forward upon this occasion. As for the speeches delivered they were in perfect keeping with !the occasion that called them forth. Mr. Hume, it is 'true, was a little startled at the shout of triumph which followed his declaration that " a large pertioe of our fel iow-subjects in Lower Canada had been compelled to take bp arms against the mother country." But men sl'fould be cautious of uttering statements or expressions the applause of which is calculated to make them either ashamed or afraid. Ile did not prove the compulsion under which the French Canadians had acted by any statement of grie- Nene,* ; no, his method was more compendious and facile. :He appealed to the existence of rebellion itself as evidence flat the provocation was sufficient to justify it. This, it .not new doctrine, is, at all events, convenient doctrine ; for it settles the question of right by simply ascertaining ti l e feet of rebellion. Mr. Leader took up the same ground in his oration, avoiding, like his predecessor, the mention of any specific grievances as constituting the " compulsion" under which his fellow-subjects and fellow-patriots in 4Janada had been constrained to appeal to arms. And lest ie meeting should suppose that he was at all behind hand svtth Mr. Hume in pushing the principle which goes to jus tify rebellion because it is rebellion, he told them, with the addition of an explanatory figure, " that a people would no more rise against a Government that was kind than the sea would _rise if the winds were silent." But figure is not often a sufficient substitute for facts ; and we believe the history of nations will show that Governments have some tismea been assailed, not because they were unjust or severe, bat because they were weak, vacillating. and indecisive. The speechea that followed were not under the mark. Uteen the whole, the display was an extraordinary one, in •vrinAt, most conveniently for the Canadian cause, thy egrievanees were all taken upon credit, arid the only facts isdduced were some of the operations of nature in relation to the winds and waves. It will be seen from the state cesent of our City Correspondent, that the effect of this peat manifestation of popular feeling, as it professed to be, peoduced no more effect on 'Change than if it had been really occupied in discussing the - state of the weather, the position of the heavenly bodies, or the agitation of the ek anents.-- Morning Herald. The flume and Leader meeting at the Crown and ~: t ichor yesterday abundantly fulfilled the threats of its .1t veners, and the predictions of all honest and intelligent It was a meeting called to encourage rebellion, and to trip the people of England of that spirit of loyalty, and tl►at detestation of sanguinary treaqon, by which only a del;bp TALT and armed outrage upon the majesty of the em pire "q .e.ver be put down. So fur as in them lay, the seditious clique of Cockneys - and Canadians did yesterday accomplish the end for which they met together. They made speeches which violated the truth in every line—they passed resolutions which had no other acknowledged mean ing than to inflame the French Canadians still more against this country—to justify them in their own eyes, and in those of mankind, for shedding the blood of British subjects engaged in the service of their lawful Sovereign, and to persevere stubbornly in the infliction upon Englishmen of all the calamities of a civil war, got up by a band of sedi tious incendiaries, who themselves have taken flight from its terrors. Nothing that ever we have seen or heard of was more disgraceful than the tone of deception and v irulence which pervaded the declamations of the several orators in this instance, and the character of their respective resolu tions. The Chairman was worthy of the day and of the object. It was Mr. Joseph Hume—a personage just as stupid as he is vain--one whose antipathies are as nume rous as the blessings enjoyed by England under her free and noble institutions, and whose sympathies vary in amount from time to time, as bad men and depraved poli tical enterprises multiply or diminish. We cannot follow this offensive talker through the foolishnesses of his introduc tory speech ; we can scarcely catch their meaning. He tells the mixed rabble who surround him, that they " were met to put an end to the horrors of civil war." How, then, is this to be effected ? Easily enough, we should imagine. Nobody pretends that a single shot was fired by the Queen of England's troops, or a sabre drawn by them, or a drop spilt of Canadian blood, save only in ful filling the sacred duty of self-defence, in the protection of their • own lives, and the maintenance of the Queen's peace, after both had been, with out notice, attacked by armed bodies of French colonists, in open, wanton, sudden, and perfidious rebellion. The Queen's troops, we repeat, were the assaulted party—the Canadians were the recog nised aggressors. Yet this system of,treacherous and one sided massacre is coolly described as a " civil war," which Westminster patriots, like Mr. Joseph Huine, flock in crowds professedly "to put an end to." Very well ; send a missive to the rebels to lay down their arms, and desist from firing upon the Queen of England's subjects, and the " civil war" is settled at once. There will not then be a trig ger pulled on the part either of loyal militiamen or regular troops—of that no wan will entertain the slightest suspi cion. But then comes the broad allegation that the Ca nadians had grievances which " drove" them to take up arms. And what is the head and front of these grievances, as declared by these oratars ? It is, that when the public functionaries of the State had been left starving for three or four years, the Royal revenue, which hail been given up to the Assembly on the faith of its being applied to the support of the civil government, was taken by the Crown for that legiti mate purpose, and a remedy thus found for the flagrant wrong perpetrated by the Papineau faction against the safety of the colonial commonwealth. It is said that the British House of Commons have a constitutional right to stop the supplies it they think fit, and so to dissolve the Government. Vastly well all this ; and if we can suppose a succession of British Parliaments wild and frantic enough to dissolve the State to which they constitute the outward and visible organ, there is no help for such a catastrophe that we know of beyond thatt of trying repeated experi ments of a " dieaolution" of Parliament. Failing that, there is no redress by law ; but is there any fair parallel between the rights of a body supreme over its own actions, and amenable to no external or superior power, and the rights of another body, amenable by law to the supreme au thorlty of an external Sovereign, to whom it owes obe dience ? It the British Parliament, speaking in the 'tante of the nation, say r, we will not raise money this year for the pay of the Civil List—of snlaries—of the army sod navy— of the judges, the Parliament commits what may he called a political suicide. But that is a crime which cannot be tried or punished by any other human tribunal : It is a crime by England acainst England only. It is not one against Lower Canada. which contains in it any particle of rebellion, er which Lower Canada has a right to visit with any retribution. If, or, the contrary, Lower Canada chooses to paralyse that Civil Government, which belongs not to her alone, hut has been placed over her hy England, not merely for Canadian interests but for those of England also, she vionvee cot her duties to herself exclusively ; site breaks obligetions imposed upon her by a country which had an uuqiiestionnble right to impose them ; she deeply iiijures hers if, it is true, but she precedes that folly by robbery of English possessioes and a glaring and hoe - siting outraee . upon English rights. The two cases, therefore, pre sent no sort of parallel. Mr. Leader, that strange poiitical fungus, who has fas tened himself upon stminster, but whom an easy ope:atiou is destined to remove, turns philanthropist, and exclaims—" It is a sad thing to see military execution let loose upon any people." It is a sad thing for a man who tis'ks iii public to forget the known facts of any case on which he appeals to his hearers. The military execution in the present instance happens to have been " let loose' upon the British forces, not by them. They lost the first blood—they were victims, not aggressors. Will Mr. Leader command his creatures its Lower Canada to cease on their part from inflicting " military execution ?" The speeches delivered, the resolutions passed, the absurdities, extravagancies, and calumnies asserted, are given in our report of this unprincipled and atrocious meeting, which, in so far as it tends to uphold the Canadians in their trea son, assists in the shedding every drop of human blood, whether English or Canadian, which may be spilt in the progress of this wanton and cruel strife.—Tinies. The meeting held yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for the support and encouragement of the Cana dian insurgents, did not turn out to be the kind of failure which the Ministerial journals had so confidently and per severingly professed to expect. In many respects it was a failure, no doubt, but in those respects only in which many former meeting whose success was loudly applauded by our Ministerial contemporaries failed in at least an equal degree. There was, as is usual on such occasions, more of declamation than of argument in the speeches addressed to the assembly—more of depraved craving for a vicious and noisy popularity than of anxiety for the public welfare on the part of the orators—and more of vehemence and enthusiasm than of respectability, sobriety, or geed sense on the part of the assembled mob, To this extent the meeting was a failure—like every public meeting within our recollection which patronised any object of the present Ministers of the Crown, or any of whose ob jects the present Ministers of the Crown patronized. The meeting was such, whether we regard its com position or its numbers, or the character of the nu merous speeches that obtained its attention and applause, as would not have failed, (and we ac knowledge the fact with unfeigned regret), had it been convened for the promotion of any Ministerial project, to throw all the Ministerial journals and all their offi cial patrons into a paroxysm of delight, and to have sup plied them with a daily theme of triumphant exultation for at least a week. In saying this, however, as our readers are fully aware, we do not say much in honour of the meeting. Were it the purpose of such assemblages to seek information upon the subject on account of which they are called together, or to arrive at any rational con viction upon the questions which seem to be put in issue by their convocation, the meeting of yesterday would un doubtedly have been a decided failure. Neither Mr. Hume, nor Mr. Leader, nor Colonel Thompson, nor Dr. Wade, nor Mr. Grote, nor Mr. Roebuck, nor Sir William Molesworth, nor Mr. Crawford, nor Mr. Duffey, nor Mr. Hetherington, nor Mr. Vincent, although the necessity of doing so was repeatedly intimated to them from the crowd, attempted to vindicate the Canadian revolt by other arguments or assertions than such as have been a thousand times refuted and disproved. The master grievance alleged in defence of the insurrection was the appropriation of the colonial funds by the Executive Government, with the sanction of the two houses of the British Parliament, after the House of Assembly had for three years refused to make theappropriations necessary to keepthe machine of Go vernment in motion, for the avowed purpose of extorting the the consent of the other branches of the Colonial Legislature to an organic change of the Constitution granted by the Legisla ture of Great Britain,andaccepted by the colony. A more ridi culous grievance was surely never paraded before any ra tional assembly. It is simply this, that the House of As sembly having trampled upon the first principles of the Constitution, extinguished its entire spirit, and rendered its intended operation abortive or impracticable, the Bri tish Parliament did not think it just or expedient that the Executive Government of the colony should be any longer fettered and paralysed by a stri c t a dh erence to the letter of this strangled and defunct Constitution. In addition to this notable grievance fur the special vindica tion of the rebellion, to be immediately patronised, the meeting was edified and delighted by the ar gument of all-work in the general cause of rebel lion which assumes that men never engage in insurrection without just and adequate provocation or motive. This convenient and never-failing plea fur rebellion, was ad vanced by every speaker in succession, in every imaginable variety of phrase, and with great exuberance of illustra tion. Such arguments of course could not have been in tended to convince the understanding s of any assembly of rational beings ; but they had thi s mer i t, that the i r accep tance by the assembly would serve to manifest the disposi tion of the assembly, and to manifest it the more clearly in proportion to their utter abeurtlity and folly. One of the speakers, however, Colonel Thompson, was determined that this manifest Ition of the dispesition and will of the assembly, should not suffice—for he took occasion to men tion, in terms of exultation, the great act of justice which rebellion once achieved in England, in the murder of Charles the First, and to intimate, not very indistinctly, his readiness upon what he might deem a suitable oc casion, to take part in preparing a similar triumph of the democratic principle in our own day. These senti- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1838. ments, as Colonel Thompson no doubt expected, were re ceived with vehement applause. But, whatever may have been the failure or the success of the meeting of yesterday, regarded as an incident in the popular movements of the British metropolis, there is great reason to apprehend that its success, and that of the numerous similar meetings in other populous towns by which it will certainly be followed, will not disappoint the wishes of its promoters in reference to the contest between lawful authority and rebellion in Canada. The character of the meeting, and the degree of weight and influence enjoyed in this country by the Mem bers of the House of Commons and the other persons who took a conspicuous part in its proceedings, will not be so well understood or so accurately appreciated on the other side of the Atlantic as they are on the banks of the Thames. That the proceedings of this meeting must produce mischievous effects both in Canada and the United States, it would be weakness and folly to deny. They will, unquestionably, inspire the rebels with confidence and courage, and diffuse in the same proportion alarm and dismay among the loyal part of the po pulation of both the Canadas ; while, at the same time, there is the greatest reason to fear that they may commu nicate a decided Canadian bias to the yet hesitating feelings and policy of the people and Government of the United States. We should scarcely exaggerate theinjurious effect of this proceeding of the Westminster and Londo❑ Ra dicals if we computed it as equivalent to an array in favour of the rebel cause of five thousand well armed and well dis ciplined men. What will give its greatest value and effi cacy to this meeting, both in Canada and the United States, is the fact that five Members of the House of Commons took an active and zealous part in its proceedings. And it were the greatest injustice to forget that there is not one of the five to whose election the present Ministers of the Crown did notessentiallycontribute, or to whose re-election, in opposition to any Conservative competitor, the present Ministers of the Crown would not again contribute, the utmost exertio❑ of their influence, personal and official.— Morning Post. On Saturday last, a stranger presented himself at the police station in this town, and asked the superintendent if be bad a copy of the Hue and Cry for March. Mr. Gooiyer p oluced the paper, and the stranger pointed to an advertise ment describiug a fugitive named John William Beeson, who had embezzled several sums of meney, amounting to about 1501., the property of his employer, Mr Jones, of London, gas fitter. "I am that man " said the stranger ; and finding that his visitor answered to the description in the advertisement, Mr. Gaodyer took him into custody. The prisoner stated that he had tecently got married, and entertained the hope that his wife's friends would enable him to make an arrange ment with Mr. Jones ; but he was disappointed in his expecta tions, and quitted his bride within two days of their marriage. He had no peace of mind, and could not feel easy until he hod satisfied the demands of justice. He therefore came to Lei s ter, to surrender himself, preferring to take this step in a strange town, rather than in the place where he . had b e e n lately residing among his friends, and where (on their account) he thought it undesirable to make a stir by confessing his of fence. Mr. Goodyer took him before a magistrate, and after wards conveyed him to London.—Leicester Chronicle. NEW REAPING MACHINE.—We hive tO COll - our agricultural readers upon the invention of a new reaping machine, likely, from its simplicity and efficacy, to form an important era in the rued labours of the farm. This machine is totally different frumthose hiahly-ingenious ja ap i e . meets invented by Mr. Bell, and Mr. Smith, of Deanstone ; and, in operation, may be said to combine the clipping with the cutting principle. The cutters are attached to a revo l v i ng eilindrical drum, from which they are exerted o n th e i nn e r side, together with the rake fur carrying ran , d the cut corn, f.-om whence they move ruund towards the exterior of the sanding cure; when, after having performed the a ork allot ted to them in each revolution, they are again withdrawn to the inside of the cylinder, fur the purpose of facilitating th e laying down of th e g rai n i n a reg ul a r man ner , and in being sharpened by a streak appended for that purpose. It also possesses the advantage, never hitherto obtained, of being equally applicable to standing as well as lying corn, and can be worked on the root irregular nitrite-, in consequence of a regulating wheel preceding the cutter. It is calculated to cut ten acres a day, with the assistance of a man and horse. This machine is invented by Mr. Itol7ert Baldwin, An n an . Dumfriesshire. It has been examined in the course of the last few days, in the Aga icultutol Museum of Messrs. P. Law son and Son, by Sir Charles Girdon. Secratsry to the nigh_ land and Agricultural S,:ciety of Scotland ; D. Lowe, Es q ., Prolassor of Agriculture in the University : J. D. Forbes, Esl., Professor of N. tural Philosophy, University; J. S. IZussell, Esq., M. A ; -James Slight, Esq., Curator of the Highland and Agricultural Society's Models; and several other gentlemen versant in mechanics and agriculture, who all concurred in expressing their high opinion of the simplicity of this invention.—Correspondent ofthe Scotsman. SIIISEIINESS.--.011 Tuesday the family of Mr. resident not far from the Royal Hotel:Mile Town, wereahrown into a state of great consternation, in consequence of the daughter, Miss N —, and the daughter-in-law, Miss D---, having eloped. It appears after .the ladies had lunched they went for a walk, and not appearing at seven o'clock at night, the family begun to be alarmed. At nine o'clock they received information that ,the ladies were gone off in a hired chaise to be married. The parents immediately commenced pursuit; but whether they were successful or not we have not yet learned. One of the young ladies is only fourteen years old. The two gallants are stated to be Lieu tenant S—, of the last regiment that was stationed here, and the last Ensign of the regiment new on duty.— Maidstone Gazette. INDEPENDENCE OF MlND.—There are some men who go in leading strings all their days. They always follow in the path of others, without being able to give any reasen for their opinions. Th ere i s a proper menta l i n d epen d ence which all should maintaiu—sel f -respect andthe stability of our character require it. The man who pins his opinions entirely on another's sleeve can have no great respect for his own judgment, and is likely to be a changeling. When we consider carefully what appeals to our minde, and exercise upon it our own reason, taking into respectful consideration what others say upon it, and then come to a conclusion of our own, we act as intellt. gent beings should act, and only then. This proper inde pendence of mind is far removed from presumptuous self-con fidence, than which there is nothing more severely to be con eemned. Presumption is the associate of ignorance ; and it is hateful in the extreme to hear some half-taught stripling de livering his opinions with all the authority of au oracle. This is not what we mean by mental independence, an d i t i s h o ped nave will mistake what has been said. We refer to a modest yet firm and independent exercise of judgment upon subjects which the mind understands ; in short, we intend only the op posite of that slavish habit which makes one man the mere shadow of another. —Revs. J. Stoughton. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURIL—In the night of Wednesday week, about the hour when the ghosts play at leap-frog over tomb-stones, or stick themselves up in corners of dark rooms to frighten simple maidens out of their senses, Mr. Thomas Eve and Mr. Charles Bird, inhabitants of the village of Orsett, sallied forth from the house of a friend some miles distant, to search out their own good roof trees. Now, be it known, at the identical house from which they sallied. a young stranger had taken up a " local habitation," to whom they had that day given " a name," and consequently the hearts of Messrs. Eve and Bird were so wrapped up in the warm things which hospitality scatters about at these joyous times, that they feared not cold winds, thieves, hobgoblins, or other midnight trifles. In this heroic mood they reached Stif ford-hill, when a cart attracted their attention. Though fear slumbered, suspi c i on was awa k e, and they very coolly walked round to look at the name on the cart. Now conscience is a troublesome fellow at times, at least to a certain clas s o f per sons, and as the owner of the cart did not happen to be pro vided with the best in the world, it gave him at this particular juncture certain 'twitches, so throwing off his coat, he leaped to the ground and escaped, leaving an excellent cart, his coat, and five pigs, in the hands of Messrs. Eve and Bird, w ho thus captured a valuable prize without striking a blow. The cart had on, " Samuel Mitchell, General Dealer, Tottenham road," and Messrs. Eve and Bird, following up their adven ture with the most praiseworthy promptness, started without loss of time, and on searching the premises thus pointed out, found a sack with the name of Field (who is known at Aveley) d e b n y t 1 y t hoen christeningits svay to upon it. The pigs, it proved, had been stolen from Miss i t i i a ff m or , and the Hanson's,_ of New Jenkins Farm, Muckin g , about six miles thus cart frrrrtten s captured u e r party. Chelmsford Chronicle. The public curiosity through Bath and its neigh bourhood has b e en muc h exc i te d b y the vestiges of a Roman villa laid bare by the railroad excavations, near Newton St. Lee. They indicate the former residence there of an officer belonging to the Roman legion, stationed at Bath, or Aquae Solis, 17 or 18 c en t ur i es ago ; an d di splay the luxuriousfit tings-up of such a mansion with hypocausts, tessela.ted pave ment, crypto-porticos, etc. But remains of much deeper an tiquity, coeval with the Deluge, have been recently discovered near the same spot—a tooth of an antediluvian elephant, depo sited in the bed of gravel (brought f rom a f ar ) which spreads itself over part of the flat near Newton, and cove t , ' a portion of the declivity of Sion-bill. We understand that a tusk of another primaeval elephant was found in the same extensive deposition of gravel in Newton-park some years ago.—Bath Journal. The Black Arabian—for we know him by no other name—was presented, with another stallion and two mares, to his late Majesty William IV., by the Imaum o f Muscat, in Arabia, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf ; and thoug h pure bred Arabs of this colour are rather unusual, h e is said to he of the very highest caste.. The brandA mark which is to be seen on his hind quarter is an Arabic character ; but whe ther it is expressive of his breed, or 13 me re ly th e proprietary mark of a former owner, we have not been abl e t o l earn. His height is 14 hands 3 inches ; his form—though devoid of goo d racing points, in the opinion of Englishturfmen—i s hi g hl y dicative of the strength and activity which are characteristic of the real Arab; his thighs and legs are good ; an d his hoofs are almost as clear and as hard R 3 flint. His neck i 3 li g ht, with a large wind-pipe allowing full room for free respiration • his shoulders is rather heavy ; and, thourli his loins are nar row, he is round barrelled and has a roomy chest. From the prominence of his cheek-bones and the depth of his j aiv , hi s head, when seen in profile, has the appearance of b in g heavy. He was purchas e d f , o• the King of Wu tcmberg Ft the Hamp - - ton Court sale on the 25th of O c tob e r l as t f or 580 guineas, a sum which was considerably greater than what our best judges thought he would brin?,.. The bay stallion, his companion, who was considered to Le not so highly bred, was. purchased fir 410 guineas by an agent of the Freuch govern nent,_New Sporting Mayazine. LA IT INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFF'S COURT, J.N. 4. FRASER AND ANOTHER V. R. D. BROWNE, ESQ., M.P. This was an action brought by tho plaintiffs, who are tailors in Bond-street, to recover of the defendant, who is a Member of Parliament for Mayo, the aura of 611. ls., for goods sup plied. The plaintiff was sot prepared with his witnesses to prove the orders, but adduced evidence to show that goods to the amount of 451. had been delivered at the defendant's resi dence in Charles-street, St. James's-square. The remainder was ordered through Mr. Mahon, and sent to him in Dublin, but no one was present who could identify the handwriting of the defendant in the letter to that gentleman. The letter was franked by the defendant, which, it was submitted, was prima facie evidence of its authenticity. The Jury found for the plaintiffs. CRIMINAL COURT-(THURSDAY). OLD COURT. George Penn, aged 24,;asindicted for feloniously uttering and putting off a forged Bank of England note for 51., well knowing the same to have been forged, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The Jury return , d a verdict of Guilty. There are several other cases of uttering forged bank-notes to be tried. NEW COURT. Thomas Gregory,formerlya — polleeMail, um indicted for stealing several siik shawls, scarfs, cloaks, whittles, and other articles, of the value of 801. and upwards, the property of George Evans, his employer. The evidence being of the most conclusive character, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. George Joyce, an elderly man, was indicted for stealing two trusses of hay, the property of Hugh Mackintosh, Esq., to whom he we.; a servant ; and Francis Norris was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen-- The Jury found Joyce Guilty, and acquitted Norris. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. G. Robinson, a private in the Blues, was brought beforo Mr. CHAMBERS for final examination, charged with having de frauded a great number of booksellers. Wht!n firs. taken into eustcriy it wa; fo; defrauding Messrs. Boone and Co., of Boml-sweet, of three va:uable book, by substituting, a similar parcel of books ; and his defence .cas, that, having in vain solicited his discharge from the Regi ment, he had committed the offence in order to accomplish his object Three cases were taken down, and the prisoner was fully committed on them. They w,ie those of Messrs.. Boone, .Bond-street, Mr. Mitchell, Charles -street, and Mr. Nock, Newman •street. WORSHIP-STREET. A few days ago Edward Jones and Elia. Janes, his wife, and John and Airy Taylor, husband aid wife, were brought u p in the custody of Baker. II 2 - 6. The prisoner=, and a man and his wife, of the name of Oughton, livcd in the same house, in Swan•ailey. Bethnal green. Oughton, who is a i.icharged soldier, was in the habit of gaining his living by matches, and picking up bones in the street and disposing, of them. Or, Boxing Day, the 26th of last month, he received a communication from a solicitor residing in a market town in Staffordshire, stating that a brother of hi 3 had died, and that he ( Oughton) in consequence, came into the possesion of above three thousand pounds ; and he transmitted five 9overcigns, for the purpose of assisting him down. Upon the re ceipt of thii and on the same night he imited the pri, - oners, two others ni,t is custody, to make merry upon his good luck. They were piiling themselves till about one o'clock in the morning, when 'lre of the party induced Oughton's wife to absent herself from the room. She had nut been long away before :“,rne one put the candle out. Tile table and the chairs were then scattered about, and in the midst of the confusion Oughton was knocked down, and the pocket in which he had placed his money was cut off; that and the mon ey bong taken away. The following day (Wednesday) Barker heard of the robbery, when he apprehended the above prisoner, who, haring bi,en examined, was remanded ; but on the day when they were to appear Oughton was not fortta coming. In consequence, Mr. Grove again remanded the prisoner, and directed Barker to bring Oughton up at the next hearing ; lint, though several days have elapsed, Barker h' s not succeeded in obtaining any information of hem. A notice had been inserted in the police report. Great fears are entertained that he has been violently disposed of ; the more particularly Si, as nothing has been heard of the too men who were also in the room. METAL IN CANDLES.—Much having been of late before the public respecting the making of candles, we venture shortly to bring the question before our readers. To produce a candle that requires no snuffing it is necessary that th_ whole, of it, siiek included, should burn away in flame ; very fine wax and well refined spermacki seem to be best suited for this purpose. To render other candles equally vote tile arsenic has been used with success; hut the health of the community does hot seem herein to have been regarded. Some candles have a small portion of the metal called bismuth, introduced into them, which metal is perfectly harmless ; it has the property of rendering the combustion of tile candle more perfect, producing a white flame, and preventing the unpleasant sm.AI that is observed on entering a room lighted with common tallow candies. Bismuth, in the form of a white powder, is sold by perfumers as a cosmetic. —Repository (or Arts. MR. O'CONNELL.—We are happy to announce that Mr. O'Connell is now quite convalescent, and that in a few days he will be able to resume his active duties in lublic. It has been stated in the Mail that the Surgeon-General and Dr. Marsh have been in attendance on Mr. O'Connell. We are authorised to state that the only medical attendants of the Hon. Gentleman, during his illness, were Surgeon White, of Dawson street, and Mr. O'Connell's domestic physician, Dr. Nugent.2.-Dublia Evening Post of Tuesday last. At the Greenwich Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a travelling bookseller, in good circumstances, named James Steward, residing in East-street, Greenwich, was finally exa mined o n a c h arge o f attempt i ng to comm i t a rape upon Ellen Hart, a pretty interesting girl, aged 13. The prisoner, it ap pared, formerly lodged with the girl's aunt, and on the 26th of December he invited her to tea at his house, and afterwards sent her out for some snuff. During her absence he went to her residence, and called the girl, whom he had previously observed, into the back kitchen. A man named Lambourn was in the house at the time, and the prisoner gave him Is., with directions to ,go and stay at a public-house in the neigh bourhood fora friend of his. As soon as Lambourn was gone, the prisoner attempted to commit the capital offence, but was interrupted by the entry of the girl's aunt. The prisoner, on being discovered, offered Mrs. Jutton, the aunt, 51. and a quarter's rent, not to say anything about the matter, but she gave information of it to the police, who apprehended Steward. The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Jones, of Furnival's inn, was committed for trial. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.—The rumoured dif ficulties attendant on the acquisition of Chinese, from the great number and variety of the characters, are the mere ex aggerations of ignorance. The roots, or original characters of the Chinese (or what, by a species of analogy, may be called its alphabet), are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To aszert that there are so many thousand cha racters in the language is very much the same thing as to Say that there are so many thousand words in Johnson's Dictionary; nor is a knowledge of the whole at all more necessary for every practical purpose than it is to get all Johnson's Dictionary by heart in order to read and converse in English.—Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Vol. 11. —Davis's Chinese. SUICIDE OF Ma. R. CHILDS, OF BUNGAY.— On the 29th ult., an inquest was held at Bungay St, Mary, before Mr. E. Lawrence, Coroner, on the body of Mr. Robert Childs, who put an end to his existence by throwing himself out of an upper window of his residence on Sunday se'nnight. Mr. F;sher, surgeon, deposed that about February last, he was called to see the deceased, and found him in a state bor dering upon idiotcy ; but in a few days he resuraed his usual health. ile was subject to periodical bilious attacks, and wit ness had frequently observed his declining health. Last Sun day week, at nine o'clock in the morning, he was called in to see the deceased, and found him covered with dirt, and very mush bruised. The lower half of his body had e ntirely lost sensation and motion ; about the Tuesday after, and on several subsequent occasions, deceased spoke to the witness on his throwing himself from the window as the act of a madman—that he had been mad, and nothing could prevent his being so in future. He attributed his s ymptoms of insanity to the state of his mind antecedent to the act, and not consequent upon any injury he had received from the act itself. He died abont nine last Monday morn ing.—Mr. Charles Childs, nephew of the deceased, deposed, that about a wionth before the decease of his uncle, he sud denly declined in health, and appeared to be is a condition of the deepest despondency. He was placed with Dr. Dalrymple, of Norwich, and witness learned from that gentleman that his malady consisted mainly in exceeding debility of the nervous system. On the day after his return from Norwich, he desired a private conference with witness, and stated that he was suffering under apprehension that he had mismanaged an estate of which he was trustee, and wasted the whole of the property. Witness knew there were no grounds what ever for the statement, and explained to him that there were none. This was a fortnight before the act. He seemed to yield to his explanation ; but, not satisfied himself, he re lied on witness's judgment. During the following week he was in a state of the most agonising despondency; and en the following Saturday witness sent an express to Dr. Dalrymple, who declared it was a case of insanity as distinctly marked as any he had ever witnessed. There was no cause whatever to produce that state of mind—the whole was mental delusion. Every precaution was taken to prevent any act of self-destruc tion. Hannah Silverstone, servant to the deceased, stated that about nine o'clock in the morning of Sunday night, having left t he room for tn , t more than half a minute, she found the de ceased gone. Jonathan Fenn, servant of the deceased, stated that he was at svo,k in the warehouse, and wait alarmed by hearing a noise, followed by groaes. He proceeded to the garden, where he saw his master lying on the gro un d i n a s t ate of insensibility, and saw one of the upper back room windows open. Verdict " Insanity."—Essex Herald. A barrister, blind of one eye, pleading with •his spectacles on, said, " Gentlemen, in my argument I shall use nothing but what is necessary." " Then," replied a wag, " take out one of the glasses of your spectacles." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S—YESTIV RD A P. THE DERBY. The betting was more animated, and the results of greater importance, tnan were detailed in our account of the business transacted on Monday. Cobweb, then high in favour, de clined to 13 to 1, the odds being offered so eagerly that none could be found resolute enough to back him. The colt out of Tranhy's dam was also in less demand, 25 to 1 having been offered currently, and, in one instance, 3,000 to 100 !aid. On the other hand 3,300 to 220 t% as taken about Grey Momus, 4,000 to 200, and three or four other bets at the same price, about lon, and 25 to 1 each about Bamboo and Dormouse. A still more material change occurred in the Nonplus colt, against whom the highest bid was 16 to I. A busy afternoon closed as follows :- 10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville—offered 13 to 1 agst. Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt—offered 15 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's trey Momus—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—offered 16 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's e.—Nonplus's dam—take 17 to 1 20 to 1 agst Mr. Cooinbes's Cobham—offered 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken freely 25 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Worrall's Dormouse—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's c. out of Tranby's dare--offered 55 to 2 agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. A. Smith's Cracker—offered The rest as before. THY OAKS. 9 to I agst Lord Suffield's Calisto—takers of 10 to 1 14 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Glenara—taken THE DONCASTER ST LEGER. 1838. The following is a list of the entries in London and Newmarket : Mr. J. Day's ch. c. The Bodach Glas, by Langar ; Mr. J. Bowes's Brother to Aleppo, Mr. Worrall's Dormouse, Mr. Den ham's Compens a ti on ; Sir J. B. Mills's Volunteer ; Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney, Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird ; Mr. J. Wilson's ch. f. by Sir Nicholas, out of Mrs. Clarke ; Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville, Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Memos, Lord Suffield's Bat:il l-to:1, Loud Sutffeld's Calisto, Colonel Peel's lon, Mr. Thorrihill's Sa;ntfoin, Mr. Bond's c. by Reveller, out of Scurry ; Mr. flood's ister to Cilaucus. •potries No. d 4. COURSING, HAMPTON COURT AIEETIN6.-It'ESTFTIDAY, The Cup and Goblet.—Mr. Elmore's hi. d. Elis beat Mr. Ve rey's w. I. Catch; Mr. England's bl. d. Sultan beat Mr. Nicholl'a brim d. stopper ; Mr. Bjce's blk. d. Rook beat. Mr. Woollen's ti. Crbw ; fur. Bland's blk. and r.. d. Cut-away-Mike heat Mr. Brooks's w. b. 1 - ess ; itlr. Hodson's r. b. .IcAvell twat Mr. SpooniL.'s y. and w. b. Ellen; Mr. Patient's f. b. Plover beat Mr. Chitty's r. d. Captain; Mr. Clarke's w. b. Bella heat Mr. Dysou's r. b. Neetlle; Mr. Thompson's f. d. Pilot beat Mr. Wul r. b. Ci _ _ _ Fir it Ties—'Elie beat Sultan; Rook beat Cut-away-Mike; Jewell beat Plover; Beth beat Pilot. " LOVE ; ♦ NOVEL." BY LADY CHARLOTTE BURY. The youthful, the impassioned, and the enthusiastic will be greatly interested in this story. Let the reader con ceive a woman in the rich and matured blaom of loveliness, and a girl (bur daughter) in the fresh and fair bud of the like beluty—each fetling fur the other that peculiar affection which nothing but that relationship can excite or even com prehend ;—yet both loving, with all the devotedness of hearts formed in the same mould of passion, the same individual of the other sex I The extrome ddliqulty of treating such a subject, with due regard to the fastidious delicacy of the age in which we live, and the extraordinary success with which this difficulty has been encountered and overcome, can only be appreciated by a perusal of the work itself. LORD PEMBROKE THE HUMOTJRIST.----Of all the Mede-and- Persian laws, established in his house, the most peremptory was, that any servant who got drunk should ba instantly dich,irg,ed—na pardon granted, no excuse listened to. Yet an old footman, who had lived with him many years, would sametitces indulge in a pot of ale extraordinary, trust ing to thc wilful blindness which he saw assumed when conve nient. One fatal (lay even this could not avail. As my Lord crossed the hal", John appeared in full—not rather tipsey, or a little disguised, but dead drunk, wed unable to stand. Lord P. went up to him. "My poor fellow, what ails you?—you seem dreadfully ill ; let me feel your pulse. God bless us ! he is in a raging fever I Get him to bed, and send for the apotheeary." The apothecary came—not to be consulted, for his Lordship was physician-general in his own family—to obey orders, to bleed the patient copioualy, clap a large blister os his baak, aud give him a powerful dose of physic. After a few days of this treatment, when the fellow emerged weak and wan as the severe-t illness could have left him, " Huh, honest John," cried the master, "1 ant truly glad to see you alive : you have had a wonderful escape, though, and ought to be thank ful —very thankful, iadeed. Why, man, if I had not passed by anti spied the condition you were in, you would have been dead before flaw. But, John, John," lifting up his finger, " no score of these fevers I" A New York emigrant haring, soon after his ar rival, written to his friends in Eng'mid a favourable account of his voyage and reception, being afterwards accused of giving tlinni too favourable a colouring, replied, " Oh, if we were to tell how bad it is, nobody would corrie at all." TRANSPORTATION.—A notion prevails among the lower orders who supply our gaols with the bulk of their in mates, that the condition of the transported felon is one of comparative happiness. To disabuse such of the grievous error by which they are almost encouraged in a career of crime, we extract the fellowing from the speech of Sir William Moles worth in the House of Commons on Friday week. Condemn iag appointment of Colonel Arthur as Covet nor of Canada. he said, that he " had carefully studied the conduct of Colonel Arthur whilst that gentleman was Governor of Van Diemen's Land, from having examined Colonel Arthur himself, and from his dispatches to the Colonial Office, which were laid before the Transportation Committee of last tear, of which he ( Sir William Molez4vorth) had the honour to have been Chairman. From that evidence it appeared that. during the last twelve years Colonel Arthur had possessed despotic powers for the sole purpose of framing a system of atrocious and un heard-of cruelty, such as stood unparalleled in the annals of nations ; his sole object was to inflict pain—intense pain—to render the condition of the convict most wretched and degraded —to make Van Diemen's Land what it now was, a hell upon earth—a fitting abode for the criminals, whom he by his tor tures converted into still worser fiends." M. Arago has received a letter from Mr. Pentland in which he states that during the most violea tempests ex perienced by the Stay frigate, in doubling Cape Horn, he never found the waves run twenty English feet above the mean level of the sea.—Railway Magazine. An act of justice and mercy has been lately ob tained by the French Government from that of China, for the relations of a number of unfortunate men who 104 their lives upon the Chinese toast. It appears that so long ago as 1627, a vessel sailed from Bourdoaux, destined for Manilla and Can ton, but which, by stress of weather, was driven to take shelter at Touron, a port of Cochin China. Here, upon examination, it was found that the vessel was not in a condition again to go to sea. Fourteen of the crew, hoping to find employment in in some other vessels, embarked in a Chinese junk which was going to Canton. Upon the passage the Chinese murdered their passengers, and after stripping, threw their bodies into the sea. Of the 14 only one was spared, on account of his youth ; he was a cabin-boy named Mangeopan, from a port of Villafranca, near Nice. Upon reaching Canton, this boy in formed the authorities of what had taken place, and the Chinese boatmen were arrested, tried, and punished. For a long time, however, the relations of the unfortunate French sailors were left in ignorance of their fate, and suffering from their absence. At length the matter was brought to the atten tion of the Government, who have acted upon in with grist vi 4•our, for in consequence of the representations of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and of the Marine, a sum of 78,000 f. has been obtained from the Chinese Government, which is to be shared amongst the families and relations of the murdered sea men. —French Paper. NARROW ESCAPE 07 LORD ADOLPHUS FITZ cLARENcE.---On Wednesday evening, between six and seven o'clock, an accident which might be attended with serious per sonal injury to Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence took place in Marylebone lane. It appears that his Lordship was proceed ing in his cabriolet from Wigniore-street, Cavendish-square, towards Oxford -street, when, just as he was passing by Hen rietta-street at a quick pace, a horse and cart belonging to a milkman, named Linton, living in Allsop-place, New-road, turned sharply round the corner, in consequence of which the near shaft of the latter vehicle came in violent contact with the chest of his Lordship's horse, which it entered to so great a depth as to kill the animal on the spot. His Lordship, who by the concussion was nearly precipitated from his seat to the ground, alighted and hastened to the adjacent station-house, where he related to the inspector the particulars of the occur rence, at the same time expressing an opinion that the driver of the cart was not to blame. The horse, w hi c h was o f a chesnut colour, and thorough-bred, was worth upwards of 300 guineas. THE CHAIR OF NAPOLEON._When the late Mr. Huekisson was in office he was presented with the chair which the exiled Napoleon usually occupied during his sojourn at Longwood. This relic Mr. Huskisson appeared to set a great value on, and a place was app ro p r i ate d for it in his library. He had also a small brass plate affixed to the chair, on which the period when it was presented to him, and come other particulars were engraved; to which the following lines from Lord Byron's " Ode to Napoleon" were added " Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less th an not hi ngness. " At the moment, agitated as I was, I could not help thinking of a joke of Wells's own, in which he once suggested, in the case of a quarrel between two bishops, the propriety of their going out to settle their differenc e with a brace of minor canons. --Gilbert Gurney—New Monthly. On the 26th December a fatal accident occurred to son of Mr. Miller, of Brightling, Sussex, who was nut shoot with a friend, when his friend's gun accidentally exploded, and the shot lacerating the bowels of Miller, he expired in th• most excruciating agonies.—Maidstone Gazette. On Wednesday night sonic thieves broke into th.," houses of the Rev. E. Turner, Joseph Hill, and Thomas Dray. all of Maresfield, and stole cash, plate, and other pro perty to a considerable amount. The burgiars have eselped detection.—Brighton Goardiun. Temple, in his << lo:eent "Gravels in Peru," states that he shot a coutlir, a n , l , from notes taken on the spot, rive us the following, dimensions of its size:.—r' When the wings are spread they measure 40 feet in extent, from point to point ; the feathers are 20 feet in length, and the quid part eight inches its circumference." This almost realizes the tabled roc of Sinbad " The Arabian Nights;" but its dimensiens, as here given, test on gold and very recent authority.—Bar badoes Mercury. THE ARMY, Her Majesty's ships Cornwallis, 74, and Rainbow, 28, have sailed from Bermuda to the West Indies, for the purpose, it is supposed, of embarking troops for Halifax. The 85th Light Infantry have left New Brunswick for Canada, and the 34th Regiment have been 0rd0r , 7),1 to ieplaeft them from Nova Scotia. There is not, the slightest intention of sending out a Regi ninit of Life Guards, as reported by the Morning Post. The 93d Highlanders and the draughts intended fur the Re giments in Canada, arc to proceed without delay to Halifax ; but the Cavalry, the Brigade of Guards, and the 21st and 71st Regiments are to go direct to Quebec, and, in consequence, cannot embark till late in March, as the St. LawrenAl , ..is not navigable before May. Great improvemmts are iu vougress at the Royal Observatory, GreenWich paik. It was first built in 1675, and has since recaive.d many additions suitable to the institution, and particularly instruments fur astronomical observa tion and tie adv:incerae-at of science, Last week the herring fishing has been pretty successful in Lochtine, and the fish of an excellent quality. The fishing is conducted at present nn the drag net principle. As soon as a shoal of the herrings is observed in any of the bays on the loch, nets are immediately shot out, and the fish are inclosed, and detained till the receding of the tide, when they are left dry on the beach. Owing to the success of the fishing this season, the cured herrings are selling very low in our market, and are cheaper than has been known for many years past. The ling, cod, and haddock fishing having been also very abundant, the price of these kinds of fish is also very moderate, and prove, along with our excellent crop of pota toe,,, a source of cheap living to our poor industrious popula tion, who have lately suffered so much by the stagnation of rade. Glasgow Chronicle. For the last ten days the weather has been more like that of a balmy spring than that of mid winter. Soft southern breezes, fleecy clouds, and occasional shniva, s nl lowed by sunshine, hare prevailed during the day, and during the long December nights the temperature has vearcely been lower. But for the general dampness of the earth, and the unccmfortable sensation thus given to the feet, fires wou:d be unnecessary.—Glasgow CAronick. A few days ago at Metz, a man walked into a grocer's shop, and asked the woman who was serving in the shop to give him two pounds of treacle in his hat, hinting that this new receptacle for such dainty merchandize had beei. chosen in consequence of a wager. He pulled out a five franc piece, and while the woman was rummaging for change, be clapped his hat with its adhesive contents upon the woman's head, snatched up the drawer which contained the days re ceipt•, witi darted out of the shop. Before the woman could recover from her surprise, and disengage her eyes from the shower of sweets that had been poured upon her head, the rogue was already beyond pursuit. MA LIBRAN.—A singular instance of the ingenuity of poor Malibran happened at the first representation of the Maid of Artoisc, which has not appeared in print :—" While prostrate with her lover, daring a long march of soldiers ii s'.. , arch of them, from fatigue in over-acting, she felt so ex hausted as to create fears of her being unable to sing the finale ; but in the above posture, and feigning sleep, she con trived to make Bunn, the manager, understand that if he could fill the empty flask (used in the scene), which she most artfully kicked to the side of the prompter, that it would en sure an encore for the last piece ; the manager, of course, kept the soldiers marching, filled the flask with the best brown stout, and, unperceived by the audience, conveyed the bottle to Malibran, which she soon emptied of its contents, rallied, and then sang the finale with immense applause, and was en cored." After this performance she went to the palace of St James, and joined the Italians in a concert. The Queen in quired of her the fate of the opera, to which Malibran replied, " It has been highly applauded, but I would not presume to anticipate the judgment which I hope your Majesty will havo occasion to form of its merits." " I shall go," raid her Ma jesty, "at the earliest opportunity." From the palace she joined a jovial coterie of managers, composers, poets, singers, foreign and English, at Balfe's, and during supper the above anecdote was told in a right merry mood.—Musical World. FOREIGN GRANDILES IN AMERICA.—The pas sion which we pure Republicans have for titled bsingv.._sh e distinction with which we receive them—the Court that we pay them—is a very remarkable trait in our characteis. It thews that the baubles which we have thrown from ourselves are not displeasing to us in the persons of others. Such has been the infatuation in this city, that we have opened wide our arms to a host of foreign Counts, many of whom have been born in our own States, and have taken their moustaches and whiskers as a sufficient guarantee for their respectability— & hairy face, and the proper quantum of impudence, have procured them an entree into the first circles. The plan of operations adopted by these noblemen hes been as follows A Monsieur le Comte Feignweln arrives from Havre with two hair-trunks —empty, or half filled with rubbish—a moustache, whiskers, and a valet, who is a party of the illustrious stranger. The Count's name is entered upon the book of rivals. He keeps his chamber two days. During thi s time his name has created much attention among the young gentlemen of the city, who are anxious to boast the ticquana ance of a nobleman. The third day he goes out —more like a monkey than a man, or perhaps, more properly speaking, au enlarged edition of a poodle. His style has entranced the worthies above mentioned, end they all declare that such taste is only worthy of an European count (thank Heaven) ! Tiny leave their cards. The count selects a few of the most wealthy of these young gentlemen, and on tits fifth day receives then a private chamber to dinner. They now have the enviable honour of his acquaintance. On the sixth day they take his arm in Broadway. On the seventh they introduce him to their tiilors, hatters, bontniskers, Sec. He is anxious to see how taey do these things in Altierica On the eighth they intro duce him to their families—and by the fourteenth he has made his escape in a mysterious manner, without paying any of his accounts, or is lodged in prison for his frauds—where his friends do net go to see and console him. This has been the history of too many of the illustrious strangers who have visited us.—New York Herald. CHURCH-RATES.-A most important meeting was held in St. Mary's Church, touching that vexata questio, the Church rate. It seems that the Bishop of the Diocese is very nearly converted to the voluntary principle, and that Ar :hdeacon Bonney (not Bonner) is quite. The very mild and conciliatory manner in which these dignitaries write, is as commendable of their policy as it is of their piety. It seems Mr. Warburton gave them a broad hint as to the heretical spirit which had gone abroad in the parish, and the time was g ,ne by in which Bishops can allay heresy with a frown, or Archdeacons filch people's money by force. It is very judi cious, highly praiseworthy, in Dr. Kaye and in Archdeacon Bonney to write in so Christian a manner. However, com pulsory rates are over in it. Mary's, thanks to the energy and perseverance of its parishioners, unless the Braintree case should bring to light an obsolete law which shall invest church. wardens with the power to impose them without Judge or Jury—when this day comes, should it ever arrive, the Bishop and his Archdeacon will urge obediexce to the law (good loyal men), and we shall be ready to meet them. —Leicester. shire Mercury. EIGHT-DAY CLOCKS, to strike the Hours and Half-hours, Fll'o Guineas each. They are in elegant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable either to stand on a bracket or mantel-piece, and are Warranted, at T. COX SA. VORY'S, Working Goldsmith, &c. &c., 47, Cornhill, London. N.8.---A pamphlet containing drawings and a detailed list of the prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &e., may b• had gratis, or will be fon , arded in answer to a post-paid a l plication. BIRTiiS. On the 2Sth ult., at Hyde Park-gate, Kensington, the lady of Colonel Durant, of a daughter, still-born. On the 30th ult., at Belfield, Fifeshire, the lady of Captain Mon erieff, Scots Fusilier Guards, of a son. 211,-!RRIED. On the 3d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Christopher, youngest son of Francis Hamilton, of Dublin, Esq., to Eliza, relict of J. Armit, Esq., and youngest daughter of the late Sir Duke Gifford Bart. On the 2d inst., at Hanwell Church, John Sheringham, Esq., solicitor, to Sarah Dorothea, youngest daughter of the late Martin Livesey, Esq., of Kent. Lodge, Hanwell, and grand-clan:liter of the late J. Worthington, M.D.., of Liverpool. On the 2d inst., at Leamington, Richard Davies Evans, eldest son of the Rev. Wm. Evans, Rector of Kingsl an d, H erefordshire, te Caroli ne Ch ar lotte, thi r d daughter of the late Rev. Robert Hali fax, Rector of Richard's Castle, Shropshire, only sox of Samuel, formerly Bishop of St. Asaph. On the 3d inst., at Plumstead Church, Kent, Lieut.-Colonel Russell, Royal Artillery, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the Rev. W. J. Emmett, of Cranstead House, near Bath. On the 2d inst., at Eccles, Norfolk, Robert Postle, Esq., of Botesditle, to Caroline, relict of Christ opher Magnay, Esq., and third daugbter of the late Sir C. Flower, Bart. On the Ist inst., at Croydon, Mr. Charles Wright, sr Blue Stile, Greenwich, to Mary, only daughter of the late Mr. T. Dytems'a, of Sydenham, Kent. DIED. On the 2d inst., Ann, daughter of the late J. Dovflon, ;:sq , of Stratford-green, Essex. On the 38th ult., at 'Woodford, Essex, Mrs. Rebecca Popple— y, ell, aged 79. On the Ist inst., in Cannon- s t ree t , age d 14, Charlotte Amelia, only daughter of the late Robert Abbot, Esq., of South Lambeth. On the 31st ult., at Wallington, Herts, aged 86, the Rev. Thos. Sisson, M.A. Rector of the a b ove p l ace, and Vicar of Chippen ham, Cambridgeshire. On the '3lst ult., in Canterburp aged 83, Mary, relict of John Abbott, Esq., late of St. Dunstan s, near that city, and formerly of firompton House, Isls‘ of Thanet. On'the 31st ult., Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Moody, of the Struna, and second daughter of the late Henry Bideweli, Esq., of Bcer,ton Regis, Norfolk. At Streatham. on the 25th ult., Major-General 'coney s C.B. On the 30th ult., at Wallington, Surrey, Amelia, w,if e o f the Rev. Thomas King. On the Ist inst., John Cooke, 3i.D. F.R.S., F. S.A., &c. of Gower -street, and many years Physician to the. London Hospital. On the 31st ult., at Liverpool. R. I). Cheveley, Esq., formerly' of Messing Lodge, Essex, aged 7.5. On the 30th ult., at Springfield, Upper Clapton, Walter Francis George, youngei,t son of J. B. Moens, Esq. On the tt9tli ult., Robert Clarke, Esq., of Red Lion-square, in his is6.h year. On the 31st ult., aged 0 , Richard, only si.n of R. Winter, Ee'l' of Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood. On .he 31st ult., in Woburn-square, Juliana, eldest daughter of the late E. W. Gray, M.D., of the British Museum. On the alst ult., at Croon - I'6-11M, Greenwich, Maria, w idow of E L Smith, Esq., of Greenwich Hospital. London: Printed and PubliAmil MURDO YOUNG. a 112, Strand, at The S+(7l Office. No. 11", Strand, in the count q f January, 5, 15:15. 4:1%,